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The best American science and nature writing 2015 / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Folger, Tim, (editor.). Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- (editor.). Abrahamson, Jake, (contributor.). Bilger, Burkhard, (contributor.). Boneham, Sheila Webster, 1952- (contributor.). Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.), (contributor.). Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- (contributor.). Fink, Sheri, (contributor.). Gawande, Atul, (contributor.). Hamilton, Lisa M., (contributor.). Jacobsen, Rowan, (contributor.). Jamison, Leslie, (contributor.). Jarvis, Brooke, 1981- (contributor.). Kean, Sam, (contributor.). Keith, Jourdan Imani, 1961- (contributor.). Kintisch, Eli, 1977- (contributor.). Kolbert, Elizabeth, (contributor.). Maxmen, Amy, 1977- (contributor.). Mnookin, Seth, (contributor.). Overbye, Dennis, 1944- (contributor.). Power, Matthew, 1974-2014 (contributor.). Schweitzer, Sarah, 1970- (contributor.). Specter, Michael, (contributor.). Subramanian, Meera, (contributor.). Todd, Kim, 1970- (contributor.). Wolman, David (Journalist), (contributor.). Yeoman, Barry, 1960- (contributor.).

Record details

ISBN: 054428674X
ISBN: 9780544286740
Physical Description: xxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Mariner original."

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / by Tim Folger -- Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot -- Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham -- Health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle -- Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink -- No risky chances / Atul Gawande -- Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton -- Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen -- Empathy exams / Leslie Jamison -- Deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis -- Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean -- At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch -- Big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen -- One of a kind / Seth Mnookin -- A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye -- Blood in the sand / Matthew Power -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer -- Partial recall / Michael Specter -- City and the sea / Meera Subramanian -- Curious / Kim Todd -- Aftershocks / David Wolman -- From billions to none / Barry Yeoman.